Another crash

[Donald Allen]

On 2/16/07, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/16/07, Ariel <asgnucash at dsgml.com> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Donald Allen wrote:
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> > > so it includes --enable-debug. There are -g switches all over the
> > > compilations. But when I start gdb on gnucash, I get the msg "No
> > debugging
> > > symbols found". And when I actually start the program, I get a bunch
> > more of
> > > the "No debugging symbols" msgs. Running 'strings' on the executable
> > doesn't
> > > produce a ton of output that I would expect if symbols were included.
> > Any
> > > ideas about this?
> >
> > Often time installers will strip (remove debugging symbols) during
> > installation.
> >
> > Try checking the gnucash binary directly in the build tree. (Run the
> > file
> > command on it, it will tell you if it has debugging symbols.)
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> The gnucash binary in /usr/bin is the only one in the filesystem:
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>  root at elektra portage # find / -name 'gnucash-bin' -print
> /usr/bin/gnucash-bin
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> This system is built standard gentoo style: two partitions/filesystems,
> one small, usually unmounted filesystem containing the boot and grub
> directories, and everything else. So if find / didn't find it, it's not
> there.
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> And 'file' confirms that the symbols aren't there (thanks for reminding me
> about 'file'):
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> root at elektra portage # file /usr/bin/gnucash-bin
> /usr/bin/gnucash-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
> (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs),
> stripped
> root at elektra portage #
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> I still have the shell output from the build session and it includes this:
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> strip: i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded
>    usr/bin/gnucash-bin
>    usr/lib/libgncqof.so.1.0.4
>    usr/lib/libgncqof-backend-qsf.so
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> So you are correct. Something else needs to get said to emerge to prevent
> this.
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After doing a bit of RTFM, FEATURES=nostrip in /etc/make.conf would seem to
be the right thing.

/Don

/Don
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>         -Ariel
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